I love the summer, well the weather, cricket and playing golf anyway, as for the football side of things it has me pulling my hair out (if I had any !!) with all of the constant rubbish published in the media about improbable transfers, contract loopholes, utter speculations, misinformed club finances, disruption at every club, upheavals and discontent with all of the players as all of the papers looking to feed their football starved readers, viewers and listeners into a frenzy, of hyperbole stories until they get back into action when the Premier Starts back in a couple of months when they can inaccurately report the facts.
Now all football fans know this happens every season without fail unless they are too busy reporting on England’s demise in World or European football, so what I would like to know is ?
Why are Arsenal so bad at closed seasons?
Every other bugger has got their new shirts out already with their new players parading in them and they are all enjoying looking forward to the new season, Arsenal will be releasing the new home shirt in July still nearly a month away and the away shirt 7 weeks away and no new signing to parade them either.
The Nasri deal is making us look like we are complete amateurs at the game and we are fast becoming the laughing stock of premiership as our strategy management team of highly skilled negotiators seem to be more akin to the Chuckle Brothers at this moment in time. If there is one thing I did like about David Dein was that you would never play poker with the man, I did not really like the man that much but one thing he did well was wheel and deal, he knew how and when to do a deal and we are really looking this at the moment for a man of his calibre who has the negotiating skills of a world leader.
So just why are we so media and customer savvy useless? If business acumen was a bit higher up on the priorities of Arsenal FC then they would get a better response from us fans. They have sorted out the finances of the stadium sorted out ok, got the season ticket prices worked out and also sent out a couple of weeks before the last season finished, so they can do it if they have the inclination but they just don’t bother.
A big part of being a football fan is having the bragging rites over supporters of other teams and when a season capitulated so badly for us last season, we are all just hoping that we are going to see Arsene address these problems and all we are fed is, stories that Flamini has left and Adebayor is going.
Arsene needs to think of us fans as well, we are like recovering junkies in need of our fix of Arsenal good news, and so far this closed season it has been anything other than good news, in fact if you thought last season could not get any worse, it just has with players leaving when we should be strengthening, because if the squad was inadequate only a month ago which is true, and we have now just added to the inadequacies of the departures, we have gone backwards.
As Arsenal fans, we are starved of positive Arsenal stories and there is no feel good factor at all at the moment and yet Arsenal seem every year to bungle their way to one season from another by not realising this will also effect their shirt sales and season ticket payments as well.
We were told we were to expect new signings before the end of May by Arsene himself, have we got anyone? No, so we cant even watch the European Championships with any interest in watching one or two of our new players, nope they missed the boat on that one as well.
I would take a bet that a lot of the normal season ticket money is taking a bit longer to collect this season, maybe we are looking to see if our £1000 of our hard earned cash is justified when it seems the club can’t be that bothered either. Whey are we paying more money year in year out for being Arsenal fans when it seems Arsene can’t be bothered and by playing politics for kudos and one-upmanship.
We need signings not because of the sake of them but because we were not good enough last season and if we are to be competitive and sustain a realistic chance we must have new blood. Vela and Merida are young, they will make an impact but just how much is yet to be determined.
All Arsenal seem to get during the closed season is negative press, is there anything that the media say about us that is ever positive?
Take today, the first headline I found on the News Now portal was a paper reporting Arsene Wenger saying he is off to PSG, just what is it about Arsenal and the media claiming all of our players are leaving, for 5 years the Vieira story was he was off to Real Madrid, the one year they did not run the story he cleared off to Italy!!
The fixture list is out next Monday, here’s to a very average season by one our own high standards unless we get an influx of new players, I am sure we will sign new players and they are being worked on right now but if we aren’t then we are going to be looking over our shoulders a lot more this coming season, and maybe looking at a few teams above us as well, with envy.
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